Dr. Kristin Fabre of NCATS at the National Institutes of Health speaks to CHI on September 3, 2014. Dr. Fabre will be a keynote speaker during the Engineering Functional 3D Models and Organotypic Culture Models for Toxicology conferences at the FAST Congress, November 17-19 in Boston, MA.

Topics include NCATS’s Tissue Chip for Drug Screening Program, increased government support for tissue and organ chips, the benefits of these models for drug research, opening the drug discovery bottleneck through human surrogate technology and more.